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Mannie Blog, LGS, SPAIDS, InterSection, Israel/Palestine, Jewish Issues Antony Loewenstein's Blog Web Diary (started by Margo Kingston)

2005-12-16T23:58:00.000+11:00

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2005-12-15T17:30:00.000+11:00

Remember Jim Saleam? National Action of days gone by - did his stint in prison for various misdemeanours, back in the public arena reincarnated into the first cousin of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, now called Australia First. Whatever that means!!!Now we have a prime minister called John Howard who says the recent rioting in Sydney is not a race based issue - there is very little racism in

2005-12-14T12:36:00.000+11:00

John Howard has achieved the crowning glory or the cherry on the top of his successes in getting all his controversial legislation passed in 2005 - race riots in Sydney!!He is now able to say to the Australian population at large: "You see, we needed the anti-terror laws to stop racist attacks like those which started in Sydney over the weekend of 10-11 December 2005", when white anglo thugs

2005-12-06T20:28:00.000+11:00

5 DECEMBER 2005SINGAPORE AND THE DEATH PENALTYSingapore has a government, the head of which calls himself “Prime Minister” in a country which has no free and fair elections, has a theoretical opposition which is not allowed to say anything, trumps up spurious charges against the opposition leader and allows him to starve by selling his books in a park!!, has the strictest of censorship

2005-12-03T13:15:00.000+11:00

The sheer hypocrisy of the government of Singapore leaves one breathless with anger! A government which trades with one of the world's pariah states Burma (or Myanmar) and deals with drugs themselves has no place in a world trying to reach some standards of civilisation.Singapore is a police state with a dictatorship, first by the father, and now by the son, similar to North Korea, but is not

2005-12-01T19:37:00.000+11:00

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2005-12-01T00:56:00.000+11:00

Today was a great day for the world!The Singaporean High Commissioner in Australia tries to justify his government's use of the death penalty, whereas we all know that the death penalty is no deterrent to crimes of any sort, and the very governments that use them are guilty of murder themselves.The USA, Singapore, Iran, China, Myanmar - just a few of the more savoury users of this barbaric ritual

2005-11-30T19:05:00.000+11:00

Who is going to become the first nazi gauleiter of fascist australia?This is now the country where the opposition party has connived with the government to bring us the modern police state of 2005.It is alarming to say the least when the senate inquiry into the proposed anti-terror bills recommends removing or softening the sedition parts of the bill.So we have the attorney general saying that

2005-11-29T20:30:00.000+11:00

This photo was taken in Johannesburg around 1928. The photo shows my father, Morris De Saxe, standing behind the rest of us sitting, me - Mannie De Saxe (aged about 2) on the left - sitting on the lap of my mother Annie De Saxe in the middle, and my sister Molly De Saxe (aged about 5) on the right.We lived with my grandparents Pesa and Moshe Kuper in their big house at 51 Soper Road, Berea,

2005-11-26T19:30:00.000+11:00

Life around the world grows daily more bizarre! Iran is busy executing more gay men, the Australian government is pretending to do something about a young Australian man in a Singapore prison, while continuing trade negotiations with Singapore, Singapore says the death penalty has been a deterrent to drug traffickers - in the mean time of course it continues unabated, the USA and China have the

2005-11-09T17:20:00.000+11:00

I wrote to Margo Kingston's webdiary in reponse to the ongoing debates about the Howard government's attacks on the industrial relations legislation and the proposed alterations to anti-terrorism legislation.The attacks against me in response were rude, unwarranted, racist and personal.I am aware that many blogs have personal attacks taking place in them much of the time, but find that if those

2005-11-03T19:30:00.000+11:00

2 NOVEMBER 2005This is the day that Australia has finally become a police state. The prime minister John Howard is strutting the stage just like other infamous figures of the past, not listening to any feeble protests from anybody in the community, determined to get his way and do as he wants. This is his way of finally silencing all those who oppose his policies and are actively involved in

2005-10-26T16:50:00.000+10:00

Australia will soon take its place as one of the pariah states of the world with the new anti-terrorism and industrial relations changes about to be thrust on an unsuspecting population.Australia will be the South African apartheid police state of the 21st century, and having fled from South Africa in 1978 before the worst excesses of that regime were launched on an already intimidated population

2005-09-20T18:15:00.000+10:00

The letter below has been sent to the Melbourne and Sydney gay papers and to The Age and the Sunday Age newspapers. It will be interesting to see if any of them publish it and it will also be interesting to see whether ASIO becomes part of the equation!The Attorney General does not have an email address so this letter isbeing posted to him at Parliament House in Canberra.------- Forwarded

2005-09-14T23:36:00.000+10:00

The Federal government is turning Australia into the police state I left when I left South Africa in 1978. From 1948, when the National Party came to power in the apartheid white parliament of South Africa, till their defeat in 1994 in a democratic election which included the whole of the South African population, the regime imposed laws on its citizens which saw the state turn into a police

2005-09-14T18:45:00.000+10:00

O what a tangled web we weave,When first we practise to deceive!Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832Marmion (1808)canto 6, st.17America was thus clearly top nation, and History came to a .W.C.Sellar 1898-1951 and R.J.Yeatman 1898-19681066 and All That (1930) ch.62Those who fail to learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat itorThose who forget the past are doomed to repeat itor Those who cannot

2005-08-30T15:45:00.000+10:00

I sent this long email on Sunday 28 August 2005. It includes items from my web pages about Danby, the Australian Jewish News (AJN) aka Israeli Zionist Times, Rubinstein and the Hanan Ashrawi affair, and an analysis of letter publications between the Sydney and Melbourne editions of the AJN.As I am on Sol Salbe's mailing list I received a copy of a letter written by Michael Danby to the Australian

2005-07-22T17:39:00.000+10:00

COPY BEING SENT TO TENNIS AUSTRALIA------- Forwarded message follows -------From: josken@zip.com.auTo: josken@zipworld.com.auDate sent: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:01:50 +1000Subject: Lleyton HewittPriority: normalMannie De Saxe, Lesbian and Gay Solidarity, MelbournePO Box 1675Preston SouthVic 3072Phone: (03) 9471 4878Email: josken@zipworld.com.auWeb: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~joskenHomophobia in the

2005-07-15T17:03:00.000+10:00

Mannie De Saxe2/12 Murphy GrovePrestonVic 3072Phone:(03) 9471 4878email: josken@zipworld.com.auSome people have short memories, Karl (Killen - letters, 13/7), but someof us remember that Germany's war killed millions - Jews, homosexuals,Gypsies, Poles and Russians (who also killed Jews) and other"untermenschen" for the benefit of the Third Reich.War is brutal and criminal and all sides commit

2005-07-04T17:30:00.000+10:00

Homophobia is on the increase around Australia, thanks to the Howard Federal Government, the influence of the religious right on this and the Labor governments around the country, and the increasing denial of human rights to sexual minority citizens.The NSW Minister for Education has recently been involved in a blatant abuse of ministerial power by banning a lesson on homophobia in an NSW state

2005-05-31T00:21:00.000+10:00

Started on broadband today - opens up a whole host of possibilities, particularly as our two computers are now networked.All the nastiness propagated by the Howard government on industrial relations "reform" and possible private members bills on abortion - the one on the concentration camps and asylum seekers by a Liberal Party backbencher and 4 others is supported by ONE member of the

2005-05-24T17:03:00.000+10:00

CLOSE CONCENTRATION CAMPSIt doesn't seem to make any difference to the Australian government and its loyal opposition, the Alternative Liberal Party (ALP) who, as we know, started the system in 1992, that abuses, torture, degradation and dehumanisation are institutionalised in the camps! This is what they set out to do, and they do it very well - it's just that because people can't get into them

2005-05-23T17:15:00.000+10:00

It has been a long time between blogs - so much happens so quickly, and the truth is that the older one gets, the faster the time goes! And one seems to do less and less!Well, two of the issues dominating the media of immediate concern are the ongoing mistreatment of asylum seekers in the Australian government's concentration camps, including those of its own citizens, and the latest discussion

2005-04-15T17:15:00.000+10:00

15 April 2005:Apart from two of my recent letters to papers below, I need to comment on the George W Bush hysteria on the euthanasia death of Terri Schiavo, who was brain dead for 15 years and whose husband won the legal right to have her feeding system withdrawn so that she died two weeks later. The hypocritical stand taken by the pseudo cristian right and its mates led by the united states

2005-03-26T19:30:00.000+11:00

Mannie De Saxe2/12 Murphy GrovePrestonVic 3072Phone:(03)9471 4878email: josken@zipworld.com.auweb: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~joskenBranch stacking? ALP and democracy? Take the moc in democracy and think ofmock! Gerrymander comes to mind with the frantic wish to have power nomatter how. In the recent local government elections in Darebin, our ward,Cazaly, had 15 candidates and 13 of them were

2005-03-02T00:15:00.000+11:00

What have the following got in common? 104, 15, 3, Peter Qasim!They have in common the fact that the Australian government feels threatened by their presence in this country!One has to assume that if Australia feels it can send another 450 troops to Iraq, its internal security is not really under too much threat, otherwise these troops would not be able to be spared.So, what is the problem?Ah,

2005-02-16T20:00:00.000+11:00

It occurred to me today, after listening to Philip Ruddock telling more of the Howard government's lies to smear, slander and in general discredit the government's opponents, those who have seen through them - and their numbers do at last appear to be growing - that there is a strange similarity between Philip Ruddock and Peter Reith.Peter Reith was the minister at the time who told lies about

2005-02-07T20:00:00.000+11:00

January 2005 proved to be a very exhausting and demoralising month during which there was no inclination to write diary items. February 2005 has started with many issues needing to be put in writing, the first being the story of the concentration camps. A woman was incarcerated in Baxter concentration camp by the government authorities in Queensland who found her wandering around with no

2004-12-31T20:11:00.000+11:00

30 December 2004 The tragedy of the tsunami is so great that it is difficult for our minds to encompass the sheer scale of what has happened. The assistance offered by the richest countries in the world has been so pathetic that it can scarcely be recorded. This against an expenditure on the war we had to have when we weren't having a war - first Afghanistan, then Iraq, to say nothing of the

2004-12-24T20:00:00.000+11:00

21 December 2004 The following item was forwarded to us from Adelaide and needs as much publicity as possible. Hopefully it will be picked up by gay, lesbian and transgender activists around the country who will be able to do something about another crime about to be committed in our concentration camps! From: "Ian Purcell" Date: 21/12/2004 13:36:01 To: "'Ian Purcell'" Subject: FW: Gay Iranian

2004-12-19T18:59:00.000+11:00

17 December 2004 Those of us who have lived in a police state and watched it developing into a situation where everyone's lives are being watched by "big brother" type situations, have been alarmed at the security regulations brought in by governments - USA, UK and Australia - with, in the case of Australia at least, the willing cooperation of the opposition. It is therefore of great interest to

2004-12-10T18:59:00.000+11:00

This letter was sent to Julia Gillard, a fervent supporter of Mark Latham's. It is no doubt futile, and I probably won't get a reply, but I think I should speak about the ALP's corruption in relation to its stacking of council candidates for local government elections - it is an issue which is one of the most disgraceful ways in which this political party is now behaving: Dear Julia, It really is

2004-12-02T20:00:00.000+11:00

Another outrageous effort by the Australian Labor Party. In another context it would be called branch stacking, but the ALP right - if anything in the ALP these days could be called anything else!!! - so stacked the candidates for council elections in the Darebin Council in Melbourne that all 9 wards elected right-wing ALP members to Darebin Council - and this is DEMOCRACY???? 13 of the 15

2004-11-28T20:00:00.000+11:00

This letter was sent to three gay newspapers, one in Sydney and two in Melbourne. To date, Sunday 28 November 2004, it has been published in the Melbourne MCV. The Sydney Star Observer, which would have been an important place for it to be published, has ignored it. Its editor is more and more ignoring my letters, possibly because they are saying things which might upset his "sensitive" readers

2004-11-20T20:00:00.000+11:00

John Laws at it again! and he now has the cheek to issue an apology for what he said! Once you start the homphobia issue and let the genie out of the bottle, or to use the other expression, open the Pandora's box, what you get is more assault, battery, violence, and murder, all in the name of poofter bashing. Laws thinks it is enough to apologise for the insults he made to a visitor, Carson

2004-11-16T20:30:00.000+11:00

This photo needs to be given its context. It comes from The Age newspaper of 12 November 2004, and the photo appears beneath the heading: Howard condemns Ku Klux Klan photo. The article which follows, by Brendan Nicholson, from Canberra, reports on a particular army base in Australia. This is the whole report: "An episode in which Australian soldiers posed in Ku Klux Klan-style hoods with black

2004-11-12T20:12:00.000+11:00

The Israelis are at it again! They criticised the Palestinians for dancing in the streets after 11 September 2001, in fact they went ballistic with anger! But Israelis are dancing in the streets at the death of Yasser Arafat! Do they think that Palestinians will stop fighting for a homeland free of Israelis just because Arafat is dead? And, as if all of this isn't bad enough, the stupid Israelis

2004-11-04T20:00:00.000+11:00

The new Australian government is not wasting time in setting its agenda for the next 3 years - or longer - if indeed they are able to change the constitution, now that they have control of both houses of parliament, to allow themselves to stay as the government on a permanent basis on the grounds of national emergency. The Health Minister Tony Abbott has started on the abortion debate, the

2004-10-20T18:00:00.000+10:00

An article in The Age, Melbourne, on Monday 18 October 2004 is headlined "Condoms needed to curb HIV rate in jails." by Carol Nader. When we moved to Victoria from New South Wales in 2000 we took it for granted that after the most conservative state in Australia, New South Wales, had agreed, after years of resisting, to supply condoms in the prisons in that state, every other state and territory

2004-10-16T16:23:00.000+10:00

Today, Friday 15 October 2004, I finally decided that it really was time to stop getting the Australian Jewish News. For one thing, it is owned by Joseph Gutnick, and we are throwing away $3.05 every week in his direction. For another thing, it is so right wing, reactionary and totally - of course - zionist orientated, that it will not allow dissenting voices to be heard. Here was I, for some

2004-10-14T16:45:00.000+10:00

The following article appeared in The Age, Melbourne, on 11 October 2004, following the Federal elections on 9 October 2004, and reflecting on the way the respective parties allocated their preferences for the Senate seats in Victoria. Those gay. lesbian and transgender people who voted for the ALP on the supposition that they would allocate their preferences to the gay friendly Greens have been,

2004-10-10T18:08:00.000+10:00

Saturday night, 9 October 2004, one of the most depressing nights spent in Australia since I arrived here in 1978! The Howard government, with all its lies, distortions, hideous policies in regard to refugees and asylum seekers and concentration camps, its ultra-conservative policies in all social areas - and now re-elected with the help of the new religious right fundamentalists from the family

2004-10-07T16:40:00.000+10:00

There may still be some gay, lesbian, transgender voters out there prepared to give their precious votes to the Coalition or the Democrats. People who do this should be well aware that both these parties are giving their preferences to the Family First Party, a rabidly right-wing christian fundamentalist group whose aims, together with John Howard and others, are to ensure that people who belong

2004-10-04T16:45:00.000+10:00

Saturday 9 October 2004 is a critical day for democracy in Australia. For those of us who belong to certain minority groups in Australia it is essential to ensure that we have a voice in the new parliament elected on Saturday by electing a senate which monitors both major parties. This means ensuring that the Greens have the majority of the senate seats which will give them the balance of power

2004-10-02T18:06:00.000+10:00

This letter will be sent to all that I can contact on my email lists around the country, because the election is on Saturday 9 October 2004, and it is essential that the major parties together with their allies of the religious right have a check put upon them so that sexual minorities can fight for the equal rights so glibly taken for granted by their heterosexual counterparts: 1 October

2004-09-16T16:59:00.000+10:00

This article, by Peter Tatchell of the UK group Outrage!, appeared on the web site http://www.petertatchell.net/international/palestine2.htm The views expressed in this article underline one of the problems which confronts a Palestinian state which at the moment has no democratically elected government. Homophobia in Muslim states is well known and well acknowledged and is one of the issues which

2004-09-13T18:27:00.000+10:00

This letter was sent to the Australian Jewish News (AJN) on Sunday 12 September 2004. The AJN doesn't print my letters any more - they don't like any of my politics, be they about Israel/Palestine, same sex marriage or gay issues. So, they get published on my blog and on my web pages, providing me with soem outlet, however limited! Mannie De Saxe, Lesbian and Gay Solidarity, MelbournePO Box

2004-09-01T16:34:00.000+10:00

The tragedy of the South African AIDS crisis is that people like Anonymous are afraid of putting their names to letters because they would be held up, quite rightly, to the ridicule they deserve, and they continue writing such appalling misinformation which people read and possibly believe! This response has so much rubbish in it that one can't really take it seriously. The ignorance is

2004-08-31T18:13:00.000+10:00

I sent this letter to IOL in South Africa on 29 August 2004 and it was published the following day: TOPIC: Aids Mannie De Saxe wrote: Letter Subject: AIDS and ostriches Letter date: 2004-08-30 13:27:56 A dictionary definition of an ostrich is: 1) a large fast-running flightless African bird with powerful two-toed feet and dark feathers; 2) a person who refuses to recognise an unpleasant

2004-08-31T18:06:00.000+10:00

I sent this letter to the IOL in South Africa on 29 August 2004 and it was published by them the next day: TOPIC: Aids Mannie De Saxe wrote: Letter Subject: AIDS and ostriches Letter date: 2004-08-30 13:27:56 A dictionary definition of an ostrich is: 1) a large fast-running flightless African bird with powerful two-toed feet and dark feathers; 2) a person who refuses to recognise an unpleasant

2004-08-31T16:54:00.000+10:00

After having spent several days getting documents and newspapers together, I have now managed to put together a letter of protest at how the zionist press in Australia is dealing with those Jews who don't tow the "party" line and are therefore taboo in Jewish Australian circles. This is the letter: Mannie De Saxe PO Box 1675 Preston South Vic 3072 Phone:(03)9471 4878 email: josken@zipworld.com.au

2004-08-21T16:57:00.000+10:00

I sent this email last night - 19 August 2004 - to Sandy McCutcheon on ABC's Australia Talks Back, and today in his programme - The Week In Review - in which the week's four topics are available for a second time for comment, and he read out the letter! Progress at last! Mannie De Saxe PO Box 1675 Preston South Vic 3072 Phone:(03) 9471 4878 email: josken@zipworld.com.au web: http://

2004-08-17T01:06:00.000+10:00

I wrote the letter below today, 16 August 2004, in response to a letter by this National Party candidate for the federal election for the seat of Calare, which was published in the Sydney Star Observer on 22 July 2004. It was also written as an angry response to what his government and its loyal opposition, the Alternative Liberal Party (ALP) did with the issue by gagging debate on the proposed

2004-08-14T18:33:00.000+10:00

This letter has been sent to all ALP senators, and will also be sent to all members of the House of Representatives: 13 August 2004 The ALP's homophobia has reached new depths with this latest betrayal of the gay, lesbian and transgender communities over the Howard Marriage Amendment Bill. Nicola Roxon attending a marriage forum organised by evangelical christian groups and then trying to defend

2004-08-14T00:29:00.000+10:00

Censorship yet again enters the debate in relation to the newspapers available in Sydney and Melbourne. We have received reports that the Fairfax papers, the Sydney Morning Herald in Sydney, and The Age in Melbourne, either do not carry the same overseas stories, or, if they do, the ones in Melbourne are heavily edited, particularly those relating to the Middle East, either Iraq or Israel/

2004-08-12T16:30:00.000+10:00

Australia is cursed at the moment by having a homophobic government which stoops to the lowest levels of behaviour by acts of gross indecency. In the last few years the prime minister, John Howard, has done his best to bring about the downfall of a homosexual judge, Michael Kirby, by trying to find evidence, trumped up by his accolytes, of actions deemed to be either paedophilic or corrupt by "

2004-08-06T23:38:00.000+10:00

I wrote this letter to send to the Australian Jewish News. My partner edited it to make it shorter and more acceptable for publication, and the edited version is below this one. Mannie De SaxePO Box 1675Preston SouthVic 3072Phone:(03) 9471 4878email: josken@zipworld.com.auweb: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~josken Letters editors publish what letters they and/or their proprietors decide suit their

2004-07-03T00:32:00.000+10:00

I sent this letter in to the Australian Jewish News on 1 July 2004, having been nauseated by the articles and letters in the AJN relating to Margo Kingston's new book called "NOT HAPPY, JOHN" and the chapter in it by Antony Loewenstein about the Hanan Ashrawi peace prize debacle which occurred in New South Wales some months ago. It will indeed be interesting to see whether the AJN will print this

2004-06-28T00:00:00.000+10:00

The letter below was written to the Australian Jewish News (AJN) in response to a letter from a religious Jew who wrote in response to Jackie Stricker and her article on gay and lesbian marriage. It is so homophobic that she had to spew her religious hatred and prejudice out in a letter to the AJN. To Danny Gocs in Melbourne (dgocs@jewishnews.net.au) or Vic Alhadeff in Sydney (valhadeff@

2004-06-24T00:09:00.000+10:00

I suppose it was once a great party, so it is all the more tragic to see how the Australian Labor Party, now the Alternative Liberal Party (ALP), is tearing itself to pieces. Today, Wednesday 23 June 2004 the parliamentarians of the ALP were trying to justify their latest backflip on the pharmaceutical price increase put forward by the government. It would certainly seem, from the outcries, that

2004-06-22T23:17:00.000+10:00

Well, the Alternative Liberal Party, better known as the ALP, has done it again!! It has voted with the Liberal Party government to increase the cost of drugs to those who are in the lowest income groups so that we who are pensioners will proportionally be paying more for our drugs because of the sell-out by the ALP. This is yet another issue of sell-out, and now they are coming thick and fast

2004-06-21T00:33:00.000+10:00

"Rocky's" Masada2000 web site now has an email address to which you can write, if you are crazy enough to want to argue with a sick, paranoid, delusional, lying, homophobic, hypocritical Israelophile, who is so afraid to tell you who he is, that he even has several pages of "responses" to his web site which he himself makes up as he goes along!! Now this is really sick!!!! And they have pictures

2004-06-20T23:48:00.000+10:00

Today's (Sunday 20 June 2004) rally in support of refugees worldwide had a reasonable turnout in Melbourne, where the weather was not very propitious. It was cold and windy, with rain and hail forecast (which didn't eventuate!) despite which between 1000 and 2000 people came to tell the government what it thought of the concentration camps and the asylum seeker policies of the government and its

2004-06-16T23:40:00.000+10:00

HYPOCRISY, HYPOCRISY!! There is no end to the Alternative Liberal Party's unbelievable hypocrisy, and today's events in the Senate were just another "feather in their caps". John Faulkner, Opposition (sic) leader in the Senate was ranting and raving about the minister of defence and what the Howard government knew and didn't tell the Australian public about the goings on in the Baghdad Abu Ghraib

2004-06-14T23:57:00.000+10:00

Now this is real bravery and honesty - from a coward who is actually called Rocky and does NOT live in his favourite country Israel! And why does Rocky choose anonymity and choose not to live in Israel, his chosen country? Well, you would have to ask him that yourself, but this cowardly "hero" has a web site in which he attacks about 7000 Jews who don't agree with his views on the country he

2004-06-14T23:38:00.000+10:00

14 June 2004 Mannie De Saxe 2/12 Murphy Grove Preston Vic 3072 Phone:(03)9471 4878 email: josken@zipworld.com.au web: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~josken Let's get our facts straight! (Reagan and AIDS villain - The Age, 09/06, 10/06). On 17 September 1985 Reagan, at a press conference, announces that he can understand why parents do not want their children “in school with these kids” who have “

2004-06-13T23:36:00.000+10:00

This afternoon (Sunday 13 June 2004) I posted a blog which has disappeared into the ether!!! I am at a loss to understand what happened to it, but I will try and recreate some of it as best I am able to remember it. First I discussed the issue of Jackie Stricker and the articles she has written about gay and lesbian marriage, and comparing the assault on gay and lesbian rights in Autsralia to the

2004-06-13T15:53:00.000+10:00

First, censorship: the ABC has shown the whole of Tony Kushner's film version of his stage play, "Angels in America". Did they show the whole of it, or were the sex scenes between the two young men too hot to handle and so were cut? The middle episodes, parts 3 and 4, seemed to be somewhat shorter than their schedule, and it would appear that, unlike the rest of the film, there were sudden

2004-06-13T01:23:00.000+10:00

Research indicates there are some fertile grounds for writing about zionists vs anti-zionists/non-zionists, Yiddish vs Hebrew, Nazis vs Germans. As I discover more and more web sites which show how zionists hate Jews who are anti-zionists, the more I am led back to what happened in Nazi Germany between the zionists and the Nazis and what happened to the Jews who were not interested in Palestine

2004-06-11T23:15:00.000+10:00

This has been another strange, extraordinary, maddening, frustrating week in Australian and international politics. Peter Garrett, a long time activist for progressive social and political ideals, and the Midnight Oil singer of "revolutionary" ballads, has joined the Alternative Liberal Party (ALP), formerly known as the Australian Labor Party in some previous incarnation. So Garrett has

2004-05-31T17:57:00.000+10:00

Oh, I forgot, the "facts" are all wrong too - just to add to the disgusting scurrilous slander perpetrated by the so-called Masada2000 (what a joke!)web siters (they flatter themselves!!!) And those of us who disagree with Israel and its military occupation of Palestine - yes, Palestine - are called Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening SHIT So the abuse comes thick and fast!!

2004-05-31T17:09:00.000+10:00

Let's list a few things about this Rabbi Kahane-inspired Judea and Samaria crazed web site http://masada2000.org: 1) homophobic - "lesbo-chicks and homosexual lovers" 2) Goebbels inspired smear and innuendo type tactics 3) sexist 4) USA based anonymous - hence cowardly -web site - why doesn't the web owner go and live in his/her beloved Israel instead of spouting hatred from behind the shelter of

2004-05-31T00:04:00.000+10:00

Tonight, doing various searches on the Internet I came across the item below. Now it is interesting for a variety of reasons, but one of the main ones is the fact that the person/people running a web site called http://masada2000.org are so afraid of being contacted by the people they are slandering that you will be hard pressed to find contact names or addresses on the web sites. This reflects

2004-05-28T23:37:00.000+10:00

Today we had the news that the Federal Government was going to change the superannuation laws to include equal access to gay and lesbian partner rights, but also that the Howard government was to introduce legislation preventing the possibility of same sex marriages and same sex adoptions of children from overseas. And guess what?? The Opposition ALP - the Australian Labor Party are going to

2004-05-25T23:28:00.000+10:00

On 20 May 2004 I wrote a letter to the online South African newspaper group Independent On Line (IOL). The letter concerned the genocide which the Israelis were perpetrating against the Palestinians by destroying their country and killing the inhabitants or trying to drive them out. There was a response in the IOL which gave the usual zionist-Israeli rationale for what Israel and the Sharon

2004-05-25T16:49:00.000+10:00

I wrote a letter to the South African based Independent OnLine newspapers group known as IOL. The letter was on the slaughter of the Palestinians by the Israelis and I suggested this was a genocide which it was necessary for the world to acknowledge and respond to before it is too late. There was one response to the paper online and two to me personally by email. One of the responses gave his

2004-05-21T23:35:00.000+10:00

Tonight's (Friday 21 May 2004) news confirmed what was already fairly obvious but denied - or not admitted - by the USA. The people who are being named as responsible for the atrocities against Iraqis held for "questioning" by US soldiers were people recruited from some of the US's most notorious and brutal prisons precisely because they were experienced in brutality and assault of the worst sort

2004-05-21T00:44:00.000+10:00

It is not often these days that one comes across a good news story, especially one concerning people from Iraq in Australia, but today we heard a most fantastic story about an Iraqi man we met some months ago at our market in Preston. At the market there is a shop selling many Middle Eastern items, such as dried fruits, olive oils, nuts, pita bread, Turkish Delight and much more. The men who run

2004-05-19T23:43:00.000+10:00

Last night 18 May 2004) I sent an email to Amnesty International in the UK about the genocide in Palestine. I also sent an email to Amnesty International in Australia about the incarceration in the concentration camp on Manus Island (Papua New Guinea) of one and only one person - Aladdin Sisalum - and the continuing membership of Philip Ruddock of Amnesty International. So far there has been no

2004-05-18T23:29:00.000+10:00

Aladdin Sisalem is an asylum seeker trying to gain asylum in Australia. The Australian government has locked him up in isolation on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island. Aladdin is the only inmate of the concentration camp. Is this treatment of Aladdin any different from the dreadful scenes we have seen of US troop behaviour to prisoners in Iraq? Aladdin may not be seen to be physically molested -at

2004-05-18T23:17:00.000+10:00

Israel is bombing the Gaza strip and West Bank into oblivion. In the process they are shattering the lives of thousands of Palestinians, human beings who are being denied human rights by a military right wing dictatorship which is supported by the USA. If this is not fascism, it is only one step removed from it! This is a genocide no different from that which was done to the Jews in Nazi Germany,

2004-05-18T00:04:00.000+10:00

The Israeli genocide against the Palestinians is reaching epic proportions. It seems, however, that the countries which should be protesting loudest at the US-sponsored Israeli destruction of Gaza and the West Bank and all that exists in them are the Arab countries surrounding Israel and Palestine. And the reason for the silence? They are all client states of the USA and dependent on it for their

2004-05-16T00:27:00.000+10:00

A recent television show from the USA is called the L-Word and is about lesbians. There is an "organisation" in Melbourne - or Victoria - called the Saltshakers who are full of religious mumbo jumbo. They have made protests about the L-Word show and have been instrumental in five organisations withdrawing their adverts from the tv programme. The five organisations are:

2004-05-14T23:56:00.000+10:00

To my great surprise, I received an email from the ALP saying I had subscribed to the eLetter newsletter online of the Australian Labor Party. This is, of course, one huge big lie. However, to aggravate the situation, I was invited to supply feedback and given an email address to send it to. Imagine my astonishment when it was returned by my ISP with a message stating that the address had fatal

2004-05-11T00:06:00.000+10:00

The more one studies the situation the more one wonders about the correlation between anti-semitism, anti-zionism and anti-Israel. A friend told me today that the Oxford English dictionary's latest edition has changed what it says for anti-semitism. I will have to look it up and see what it says that is different from what it has previously said. This all ties up with this last week's censorship

2004-05-09T01:08:00.000+10:00

The issue of censoring works of art in Melbourne takes on the added twist that people who are complaining are complaining that the art is funded from public money! Well, so what! How else are struggling artists expected to live? And what is more, the political issues involved keep on having lies propagated by the zionists in the equation!! I am simply at a loss to understand why these people

2004-05-07T23:24:00.000+10:00

One of the most disgraceful acts of censorship occurred in Melbourne during the first week of May 2004. The Age newspaper of 5 May 2004 carried a report headed "Anti-Israel display erased after furore". The report stated that a publicly funded art exhibit critical of Israel had been dismantled amid a political furore and reported threats of vandalism. The exhibit, in a Flinders Street

2004-05-03T01:18:00.000+10:00

We sent this letter to The Age newspaper in Melbourne. Why were we not surprised that the letter was not published?? Kendall Lovett and Mannie De Saxe 2/12 Murphy Grove Preston Vic 3072 Phone:(03)9471 4878 email: josken@zipworld.com.au web: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~josken 29 April 2004 Quartet for comment! Laws, Jones, Flint and Howard bring to light the intrigue and drama of Verdi's opera.

2004-04-27T00:54:00.000+10:00

The Jews around the world who are screaming traitor at Vanunu are Jews who live in countries other than Israel. Their ties are not to the countries they live in, but these zionist bigots will not leave the comfort of their places of residence and move to Israel where all the action is of which they approve. The hypocrisy of it all is breath-taking, but the media in their countries of residence

2004-04-27T00:45:00.000+10:00

This item was on the Index on Censorship web site and also relates to what the world - other than Israel - thinks about the Vanunu affair. Maybe it will be referred to one day in the same way as the Dreyfuss affair was in France at the beginning of the 20th century: Free expression award for nuclear whistleblower Index on Censorship has presented its 2004 Special Award for Most Courageous

2004-04-27T00:34:00.000+10:00

2004-04-23T23:57:00.000+10:00

HIV infections are on the increase in Australia during the last two or three years. Research indicates that venereal diseases such as syphilis are also on the rise at an alarming rate. These increases would seem to be because of the refusal of many gay men to continue to use condoms. Somewhere along the line, the AIDS councils around the country must take some of the responsibility for the

2004-04-23T23:37:00.000+10:00

Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistle-blower who told the world what they already suspected about Israel's nuclear weapons programme (Israel has some of the world's largest "weapons of mass destruction" arsenals - supported and assisted by that other WMD superpower and Israel's main ally the USA) was released from an Israeli jail after serving 18 years for "treason". 11 of those years were in

2004-04-05T00:05:00.000+10:00

Because I do not want to censor what responses I get to letters I write, it is necessary for me to put in here replies I receive which have views very different from mine. Here is a reply from someone who takes exception to my ideas for solutions to the Israel/Palestine problem: Sorry this reply is so late. I am also an ex-South African Jew, living in Sydney. You say that "The solution lies in a

2004-04-04T23:30:00.000+10:00

It has been two weeks since I last made an entry to this blog, the reason being that I have been very busy placing counters on all my web pages. It has been a worthwhile exercise because it has enabled me to look at who has been looking at the various web pages and also what people have been looking at. The web pages are at: Mannie and Kendall's Home Pages and there is a whole variety of topics

2004-03-24T00:16:00.000+11:00

Well, it was interesting to see a documentary on SBS television tonight, Tuesday 23 March 2004, in which some Palestinians who were interviewed stated that the only solution to the Israel/Palestine situation was a one-state solution. Some of us have been saying this for a long time, but it certainly won't reach a ground swell until there have been many more murders and massacres on both sides and

2004-03-19T23:29:00.000+11:00

Mannie De Saxe, Lesbian and Gay Solidarity Melbourne PO Box 1675 Preston Vic 3072 Australia Phone:61 3 9471 4878 email: josken@zipworld.com.au web: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~josken It would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic! An article in IOC [Independent OnLine](15 March 2004) has as its headline "Don't use Aids (sic) to scavenge votes, says ANC". Wasn't it Mbeki, president of the ANC and

2004-03-05T01:07:00.000+11:00

The Age newspaper in Melbourne carried a headline on Wednesday 3 March 2004, "Abbott sparks AIDS ire". The report states that Health Minister Tony Abbott has angered HIV/AIDS community groups by excluding them from the Government's top advisory panel on sexually transmitted diseases. In the report a spokeswoman for Mr Abbott is quoted as saying that the list of committee members had not been